Doing more without more. That’s the logic behind the Defense Department’s Better Buying Power initiative, which aims to reform acquisition at the Pentagon.

Steven Grundman, a Lund Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., and former deputy undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Affairs, provides his perspective on how the initiative has shaped DoD procurement.

Even though the initiative is little more than two years old, Grundman said the benefits of the program are already starting to be seen in some of DoD’s larger acquisition programs, such as the bomber and strategic submarine programs.

Francis Rose is the host of In Depth, which airs weekdays from 4-7 p.m. on 1500 AM in the Washington, DC metro area and online everywhere. Francis has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998. He joined Federal News Radio in 2006, and launched In Depth in 2008 as a daily show focused on connecting federal executives to the information they need to do their jobs better.